{"id":16121,"date":"2020-03-09T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/priddybooksprd.wpengine.com\/?p=16121"},"modified":"2020-03-09T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T12:56:00","slug":"16121-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/news\/16121-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Team\u2014Holly"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Holly, Designer<\/p>\n

Tell us a bit about you and how you came to work at Priddy Books.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I actually did work experience at Priddy as part of my Publishing MA course back in 2015. In 2016 I moved to London without a job (scariest thing I\u2019ve ever done!) and contacted Priddy on the off chance that they might have some temp work going. Luckily their junior designer had gone on jury duty that same week! They kept me on as a junior after that and I worked my way up from there.<\/p>\n

What does a normal day look like for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every day can be different depending on what stage my projects are at. At the moment I\u2019m prepping files to send to the printer, checking proof copies of a book to make sure it\u2019s ready to print, researching layouts for a new non-fiction project, looking for illustrators for a novelty book, as well as general admin like archiving completed projects. And that\u2019s not even a busy day!<\/p>\n

What is your favorite part of your job?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The moment when I get final artwork in from an illustrator and it looks exactly how I imagined the book to be \u2013 or better! It\u2019s a really special feeling to work with such talented people who are able to take my rough sketches of layouts and turn them into something beautiful.<\/p>\n

What bit of your job do you think people would be most surprised to learn you do?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Probably the artworking \u2013 we make a lot of photographic books here and as we\u2019re a relatively small team we do all the artworking ourselves. This means using Photoshop to \u2018cut out\u2019 (remove) the background of a photograph so we can put it into a book. It can take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours to do a good cutout, depending on the subject. Working with pictures of super cute baby animals all day is a tough job, but someone\u2019s got to do it!<\/p>\n

Which book have you worked on that you feel most proud of?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019d say Countdown to Christmas<\/a> is the one I\u2019m most proud of. It\u2019s a new title due out this year, I found an illustrator that we haven\u2019t worked with before and she\u2019s made this book look absolutely gorgeous. It\u2019s got some really lovely wheel novelties and a cute fold-out advent calendar at the back (which I will definitely be using this December!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Holly, Designer Tell us a bit about you and how you came to work at Priddy Books. I actually did work experience at Priddy as part of my Publishing MA course back in 2015. In 2016 I moved to London without a job (scariest thing I\u2019ve ever done!) and contacted Priddy on the off chance Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[698],"class_list":["post-16121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-meet-the-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/priddybooks.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}